Best Coffee Roasters in New York
New York's roasters range from Brooklyn micro-roasteries that publish each producer's name to Queens café groups that roast for their own bars. Every roaster below roasts in New York City. For each one we checked its own website for the coffees it sells and found at least one independent source, such as an award, a competition result or a press feature.
SEY Coffee
RoasterRoasts in the back of its Grattan Street café in Brooklyn, with single-producer lots such as Tamiru Tadesse's hybrid washed coffee from Bensa, Ethiopia; Food & Wine named it America's best coffee shop in 2019.
Driftaway Coffee
RoasterBrooklyn subscription roaster that names its producers, such as Rwanda's Kinini Village Cooperative; Roast Magazine named it 2026 Roaster of the Year (Macro) and it won a 2026 Good Food Award.
Partners Coffee
RoasterRoasts at its Williamsburg flagship on North 6th Street, and its washed Ethiopia Suke Quto, a coffee it has bought for years, won a 2026 Good Food Award.
Devoción
RoasterRoasts Colombian coffee inside its Grand Street café in Williamsburg, buying direct from producers such as Nelly Alape in Tolima and flying green coffee in so it is roasted days after leaving origin.
La Cabra Roastery
RoasterThe Danish roaster's Bushwick café houses its North American roastery and Loring roaster, roasting lots such as the Calderón family's washed Pink Bourbon.
Coffee Project New York
RoasterRoasts daily at its Long Island City roastery and SCA training campus, and its barista Piyapat Lapteerawut won the 2025 U.S. Latte Art Championship and reached the world semifinal.
Cafe Grumpy
RoasterRoasts in Greenpoint, a few doors from its original 2005 café, and sells named-producer coffees such as Atilano Giraldo's Palmichal from Colombia.
Variety Coffee Roasters
RoasterBrooklyn roaster with a Bushwick café-roastery on Wyckoff Avenue, now in its fifth season buying from the Campos family's Finca La Toboba.
Kinship Coffee Cooperative
RoasterAstoria café group that has roasted its own coffee in Queens since 2020, offering single origins such as a natural Rwanda Kanzu through its Kilo Club subscription.
Sweetleaf Coffee Roasters
RoasterLong Island City roaster-café whose current list includes a washed Gesha from Colombian producer Jairo Arcila in Quindío.
How we chose
How we chose these roasters: we started from every roaster in the PremiumRoast directory for the city and removed chains, non-roasters and duplicate listings. We kept only roasters that (1) have a working website, (2) show at least two specific coffee facts on their own site (origins, producers, process or roast style), and (3) have at least one independent signal: a competition result, an award or coverage by a named publication. Each entry links to its sources. Ties were broken by editorial judgment. Checked on 3 October 2026 by PremiumRoast editors. No paid placement: no roaster paid to be included or ranked, and claiming a listing never changes ranking. Know a roaster we missed? Suggest it from any roaster page and we will check it against the same standard.
Reviewed by Mike (PremiumRoast) on October 4, 2026.